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El Paso soldier killed in training exercise in Guatemala

A U.S. Army soldier reportedly from El Paso was killed in an accident during a training exercise in Guatemala, the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala reported.

Spc. Hernaldo Beltran Jr., 24, was an Army radio operator assigned to the 56th Signal Battalion in Fort Sam Houston. San Antonio television stations KSAT and KEN5 reported that Beltran is from El Paso.

The embassy said in a news release that Beltran died Tuesday after a large tree branch fell on soldiers during an engineer project during Beyond the Horizons joint-military exercise in Los Limones, Guatemala. Three other soldiers were injured.

Beltran had previously deployed in as part of the Beyond the Horizons exercise in Guatemala in 2012 and in Panama in 2013.

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